Charleston hosts secession convention
by Chris Haire
The statue of John C. Calhoun looms over Marion Square, reminding the college students, the homeless, and the tourists who pass under it of Charleston’s past as the center of the slave trade in the United States and the Palmetto State’s honor as the first state to secede. The spirit of the South Carolina secessionist also lives on at the Eighth Annual Abbeville Scholar’s Conference, taking place just a few steps away at the Francis Marion Hotel.
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